Witty Sinners - Dull Christians

My son called me this morning. “Dad, I just finished reading the second Psalm. This is what your web site is all about, isn’t it?” Well, this is great, I thought! So I’ve raised my very own son to be a lunatic just like me. Anyway, I needed to hear from him. We had a good talk. The Lord has given him good wisdom and he spoke to me a word in season. Perhaps some of you noticed that California has now made it legal to wed members of the same sex. To some (many?) Christians, this is OK. We need to be tolerant and we need to appeal to the world at large they would say. To other Christians this is just one more surrender to licentiousness. We are discouraged. Licentiousness is becoming rampant. So what does the Psalmist say about such a scenario?

Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed: “Let us tear their fetters apart, and cast away their cords from us!” He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. Then He will speak to them in His anger and terrify them in His fury: “But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.” (Ps. 2: 1-6)

Now to some of you this passage may be only allegorical in nature. To others, me included, it is literal. There will literally be a day when God perceives that the human race has fully given itself over to rebellion and self-seeking. Do we not perceive this process to be robust in this information age in which we live? Kings and rulers are complicit in removing the Judeo/Christian God from the public arena, and they are being totally successful. Spurgeon comments on this process: “They go about their warfare craftily, not with foolish haste, but deliberately. They use all the skill which art can give. Like Pharaoh, they cry, ‘Let us deal wisely with them.’ O that men were half as careful in God’s service to serve him wisely, as his enemies are to attack his kingdom craftily. Sinners have their wits about them, and yet saints are dull.” (The Kingdom of David. Baker: Grand Rapids, 1981 - Vol. I, p. 12) Bold has been added.

This is the thought that has given birth, and that currently gives impetus, to this site: We saints seem to be dull of thought in the midst of this worldly unfolding. Please consider the possibility that we function in this, the information age, as part of the separating-out of His Elect. They are in rebellion, hopefully, we are in obedience, and thus, are in a process of being called-out. He really is going to be angry, and in His fury they are going to be terrified! Is it the intent of The Sovereign Lord to reason with such people and their rulers, or is it His intent to vent His fury? Ask the Psalmist. The completion of the footstool for His feet (Ps. 110:1) may be nearer than we seem to expect. What do you think?

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